The offer came from Edward Rogers. Five years and almost $10 million to be general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays.
The offer didn’t come from Mark Shapiro, a distinction that needs to be made in trying to understand why Alex Anthopoulos walked away from the team.
An earlier offer from Shapiro, who today becomes president of the Jays, was for two years and there is some doubt whether the second year in that proposed deal was guaranteed. The two-year offer in a climate in which untested first-year general managers sign on for five years was indication enough that Shapiro didn’t really want Anthopoulos as his GM, and the offer was thought by some to be an insult.